netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH v1 1/3] net: sched: af_packet support for direct ring access

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Date:	Tue, 7 Oct 2014 09:33:04 -0700
From:	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:	"Zhou, Danny" <danny.zhou@...el.com>
Cc:	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
	John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>,
	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
	"gerlitz.or@...il.com" <gerlitz.or@...il.com>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Ronciak, John" <john.ronciak@...el.com>,
	Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v1 1/3] net: sched: af_packet support for direct
 ring access

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Zhou, Danny <danny.zhou@...el.com> wrote:
>
> As a master driver, the NIC kernel driver still takes control of flow director as a ethtool backend. Generally,
> not all queues are initialized and used by NIC kernel driver, which reports actually used rx/tx numbers to stacks.
> Before splitting off certain queues, if you want use ethtool to direct traffics to those unused queues,
> ethtool reports invalid argument. Once certain stack-unaware queues are allocated for user space slave driver,
> ethtool allows directing packets to them as the NIC driver maintains a data struct about which queues are visible
> and used by kernel, which are used by user space.

this whole thing sounds like it's a way to let DPDK apps share physical
interfaces with kernel, so that tcp-based control plane traffic
can reach DPDK process via kernel while DPDK user space
data path does the rest of packet processing?
One still needs pcie register i/o and all of user space driver support
to make it work, right?
I guess that's great for DPDK users, but I don't think it's good for linux.
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